A look at Council Committees with noteworthy changes: Greater Bay Area Committee, Web Redevelopment, Municipal Heritage, Business Improvement Area (BIA) Advisory, Governance Review (Accountability and Transparency), Hamilton Port Authority – City of Hamilton Liaison Committee, and Selection Committee.
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Multiple Alarm Fire on Lawrence Rd Sends One to Hospital
Hamilton Fire spokesperson Claudio Mostacci says an apartment fire at 710 Lawrence Rd in Hamilton’s Rosedale neighbourhood has sent one person to hospital, and killed one of two cats in the apartment.
Mostacci says the fire was caused by a candle flame which ignited the air while the resident was using household cleaning products.
The exact ignition was not yet known during the 7:10pm media briefing Saturday evening.
Firefighters responded to the fire in a fourth floor apartment at 6:20pm.
The patient was attended to by Firefighters and Paramedics, and taken to hospital.
Posted inPlanning and Development
James Baptist Developer Required To Remedy Damage To Heritage Window
City of Hamilton Planning Director Steve Robichaud says the developer of the James Baptist site will have to remedy damage to the heritage window damaged in this week’s wind storm.
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Lobbying Queen's Park: Ticats, US Steel, and the City of Hamilton
With the municipal election now nearly a month behind us, it’s time to take a look at what’s happening at Queen’s Park in terms of Hamilton’s entities lobbying the provincial government.
Posted inTPR Discussions
What To Do About Voter Turnout: A TPR Discussion Event
What can be done about Hamilton’s historically low voter turnout? Can anything be done?
Posted inLicensing
Next Four Years: Ridesharing, Uber, and Taxi Licensing
As the City of Toronto takes Uber to court, we look at the challenge facing the new Council as they’ll response to Uber’s disruption to taxi regulations as Uber prepares to expand to Hamilton.
Spoiler Alert: Council can’t do much but issue fines that Uber will pay – this will be decided in the Toronto court case.
Posted inPolice Services Board
Hamilton Police Launch Online Crime Mapping of Selected Crime Types
Hamilton Police are providing selected crime data exclusively to US-based RAIDS Analytics, but not as open data to the local community.
Posted inPolice Services Board, Videos
Hamilton Police Services Board for November 2014
The Hamilton Police Services Board holds it’s monthly meeting for November 2014, starting at 4pm today.
Highlights on the agenda include: Online Crime Mapping, The Annual Social Navigator Project Report, Body-Worn Camera Study Report, and the location of the Concession Street crime prevention office.
Live video starts at 4pm
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City and Waste-To-Energy Plant on Collision Course Over Zoning with Port Authority
Port Authority and Plant Proponent taking position that City zoning allows use. City disagrees.
Stage is set for another court battle between the Port and the City.
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Second Public Meeting on Waste to Electricity GasPlasma Plant at Eva Rothwell
The second public meeting into the proposed Pier 15 waste to electricity GasPlasma plant is being held tonight at the Eva Rothwell Centre – Wentworth Street North – from 6pm to 9pm. TPR will be at the meeting, and we hope to bring you some live video as well on our Livestream.com page here: https://new.livestream.com/accounts/763580/events/3586081/ The […]